How To Pray The Rosary -
The purpose of the Rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events
or mysteries in the history of our salvation, and to thank and praise God for
them. There are twenty mysteries reflected upon in the Rosary, and these are
divided into the five JOYFUL MYSTERIES, the five LUMINOUS MYSTERIES, the five
SORROWFUL MYSTERIES, and the five
GLORIOUS MYSTERIES. You may also wish to pray the rosary online, with others or by yourself. As suggested by the Pope St. John Paul the Great, the Joyful mysteries are said on Monday and Saturday, the Luminous on Thursday, the Sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday, and the Glorious on Wednesday and Sunday (with this exception: Sundays of Christmas season - The Joyful; Sundays of Lent - Sorrowful).

HAIL, HOLY QUEEN, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness
and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee
do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears.
Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after
this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement,
O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!

V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray. O GOD, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and
resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant, we
beseech Thee, that meditating upon these mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary
of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain
what they promise, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.

After each decade say the following prayer requested by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima: "O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who have most need of your mercy."